Today in History - June 21
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217BCE Jun 21, Carthaginian forces led by Hannibal
destroyed a Roman army under consul Gaius Flaminicy in a battle at
Lake Trasimenus in central Italy. Hannibal of Carthage attacked
Roman Consul Flaminio at Tuoro on Lake Trasimeno in Umbria.
Hannibal’s army of Numidians, Berbers, Libyans, Gascons, and
Iberians was down to one elephant after crossing the Alps with 39.
His army of 40,000 drove the Romans into the lake where 15,000 died
as opposed to 1,500 of Hannibal’s men. 2 nearby towns were named
Ossaia (boneyard) and Sanguineto (bloodied).
(SFEM, 10/12/97, p.37)(HN, 6/21/98)
524CE Jun 21, Battle at
Vezerone: Burgundy beat France.
(MC, 6/21/02)
1002 Jun 21, Pope Leo IX was
born. He brought the conflict between Rome and the eastern Church to
a head in 1054, ending with the Patriarch of Constantinople being
excommunicated and the creation of the Schism.
(Camelot, 6/21/99)
1377 Jun 21, Edward III
(b.1312), King of England (1322-1377), died. Richard II, who was
still a child, succeeded his father. In 1966 H.J. Hewitt authored
“The Organization of War Under Edward III.” In 1978 Richard Barber
authored “Edward, Prince of Wales and Aquitaine.” In 1980 Michael
Prestwich authored “The Three Edwards: War and State in England
1272-1377.” Lines of his 3rd and 4th sons, houses Lancaster and York
engaged in the Wars of the Roses.
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R6)(ON, 9/00, p.2)(AM, 7/01,
p.69)(HN, 6/21/98)
1498 Jun 21, Jews were expelled
from Nuremberg, Bavaria, by Emperor Maximillian.
(MC, 6/21/02)
1527 Jun 21, Nicolo Machiavelli
(b.1469), Florentine statesman, author (The Prince), died. “When the
effect is good... it will always excuse the deed.”
(WSJ, 5/21/96, p.A-16)(WSJ, 6/22/98,
p.A20)(www.online-literature.com/machiavelli/)
1529 Jun 21, John Skelton (69),
English poet, died.
(MC, 6/21/02)
1547 Jun 21, There was a great
fire in Moscow.
(MC, 6/21/02)
1591 Jun 21, Aloysius
[Luigi] Gonzaga, Prince, Italian Jesuit saint, died.
(MC, 6/21/02)
1596 Jun 21, Mikhail
Feodorovich Romanov (d.1645), 1st Romanov Tsar of Russia (1613-45),
was born.
(WUD, 1994 p.1242)(MC, 6/21/02)
1607 Jun 21, The Church of
England Episcopal Church, the 1st Protestant Episcopal parish in
America, was established at Jamestown, Va. The 39 articles of the
Episcopal Faith included the statement: "There is but one living and
true God, everlasting, without body, parts, or passions; of infinite
power, wisdom and goodness; the Maker, and Preserver of all things
both visible and invisible."
(SFC, 7/21/97, p.A11)(MC, 6/21/02)(WSJ, 6/20/03,
p.W15)
1631 Jun 21, John Smith
(b.1580), English sailor, soldier and author, died in England. He
had helped found the English colony at Jamestown, Va.
(ON, 2/07,
p.9)(www.virtualjamestown.org/jsmith.html)
1633 Jun 21, Galileo Galilei
was tortured and threatened by Inquisition to "abjure, curse, &
detest" his Copernican heliocentric views.
(JST-TMC,1983, p.7)(MC, 6/21/02)
1675 Jun 21, Sir Christopher
Wren (1632-1723) began to rebuild St Paul’s Cathedral in London,
replacing the old building which had been destroyed by the Great
fire. St Paul’s Cathedral was dedicated in 1708 but work continued.
(Econ, 6/7/08,
p.98)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Paul%27s_Cathedral)
1764 Jun 21, William Sydney
Smith, British seaman, was born. He bested Napoleon Bonaparte at the
port of St. Jean d'Acre in the Mediterranean Sea.
(HN, 6/21/00)
1684 Jun 21, King Charles II
revoked the 1629 Massachusetts Bay Colony charter. [see 1691]
(HNQ, 11/23/00)(MC, 6/21/02)
1732 Jun 21, Johann Christoph
Frederic Bach (d.1795), composer, was born. He is known as the
Buckeburg Bach for serving in that city his whole life.
(LGC-HCS, p.31)(MC, 6/21/02)
1788 Jun 21, The U.S.
Constitution went into effect as New Hampshire became the ninth
state to ratify it.
(AP, 6/21/97)
1791 Jun 21, King Louis XVI and
the French royal family were arrested in Varennes. In 2003 Timothy
Tackett authored "When the King Took Flight," an examination of the
political culture during this period of transformation.
(HN, 6/21/98)(SSFC, 5/18/03, p.M6)
1813 Jun 21, The Peninsular War
ended. It began on February 16, 1808, when Napoleon ordered a large
French force into Spain under the pretext of sending reinforcements
to the French army occupying Portugal.
(MC, 6/21/02)
1821 Jun 21, African Methodist
Episcopal Zion (AMEZ) Church was organized in NYC as a national
body. [see Mar 14]
(MC, 6/21/02)
1834 Jun 21, Cyrus Hall
McCormick received a patent for his reaping machine.
(AP, 6/21/97)(HN, 6/21/98)
1843 Jun 21, In Britain the
Royal College of Surgeons was founded from the original
Barber-Surgeons Company.
(Camelot, 6/21/99)
1851 Jun 21, Daniel Carter
Beard, organized the first [US] boy scout troop, was born.
(HN, 6/21/98)
1852 Jun 21, Friedrich Frobel
(b.1782), founder of the Play and Activity Institute (1837) in
Germany, died. In 1840 he created the word kindergarten to describe
the institute.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Wilhelm_August_Froebel)
1854 Jun 21, The first Victoria
Cross was awarded to Charles Lucas, an Irishman and mate aboard the
HMS Hecla for conspicuous gallantry at Bomarsrund in the Baltic. The
medal was made from metal from a cannon captured at Sebastopol.
(Camelot, 6/21/99)
1859 Jun 21, Henry Ossawa
Tanner, African-American painter, was born.
(HN, 6/21/98)
1862 Jun 21, Union and
Confederate forces skirmished at the Chickahominy Creek during the
Peninsular Campaign.
(HN, 6/21/98)
1863 Jun 21, In the second day
of fighting, Confederate cavalry failed to dislodge a Union force at
the Battle of LaFourche Crossing in Louisiana.
(HN, 6/21/00)
1868 Jun 21, The first
performance of Wagner’s opera Die Meistersinger took place in
Munich.
(Camelot, 6/21/99)
1874 Jun 21, The Schooner
America, designed by George Steers, was sold at auction for $5000 to
former Union Gen. Benjamin Butler, who transferred it from Annapolis
to Portsmouth, NH, where he sailed it till he died. By 1942 the hull
of the schooner became unsalvageable and it was burned. The rudder
was saved and put on display at Mystic Seaport in Connecticut.
(AH, 2/03, p.29,31)
1876 Jun 21, The first gorilla
arrived in Britain.
(Camelot, 6/21/99)
1879 Jun 21, Umberto
Brunelleschi, Italian cartoonist, illustrator (Candide), was born.
(MC, 6/21/02)
1879 Jun 21, F.W. Woolworth
opened his 1st store. It failed almost immediately. Frank Woolworth
added 10-cent items to the Great 5-Cent Store in Lancaster, Pa., and
created Woolworth’s five-and-ten. This was his 2nd attempt after a
failure in Utica. He took in $127 during his first day of business.
(WSJ, 9/26/96, p.B1)(SFC,10/20/97, p.B2)(MC,
6/21/02)
1880 Jun 21, Arnold Lucius
Gesell, psychologist and pediatrician, was born.
(HN, 6/21/01)
1882 Jun 21, Rockwell Kent
(d.1971), artist, book illustrator, was born.
(HN, 6/21/01)
1884 Jun 21, Field Marshal Sir
Claude Auchinleck, British general, was born. He revived the
flagging Eighth Army to go back on the offensive against the German
army under Rommel in the Middle East, but was later replaced.
(Camelot, 6/21/99)
1887 Jun 21, Britain celebrated
the golden jubilee of Queen Victoria.
(HN, 6/21/98)
1891 Jun 21, Hermann Scherchen,
conductor (Nature of Music), was born in Berlin, Germany.
(MC, 6/21/02)
1892 Jun 21, Reinhold Niebuhr
(d.1971), American Protestant clergyman and author was born. “The
tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan values and ends is
... the source of all religious fanaticism.”
(AP, 5/4/97)(AP, 11/2/97)(HN, 6/21/01)
1893 Jun 21, George Washington
Gale Ferris, engineer, completed the construction of a 254-foot high
revolving steel wheel with 38 passenger cars, each with 40 plush
chairs, for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
(ON, 11/99, p.7)(MC, 6/21/02)
1897 Jun 21, In Austria a giant
Ferris wheel, designed by Walter Bassett of England, opened in
Vienna. It was built in the Wurstelprater amusement park to
commemorate the 50th anniversary of the accession of Emperor Franz
Joseph to the Habsburg throne.
(Econ, 5/31/08, p.71)(http://tinyurl.com/3tawph)
1898 Jun 21, Guam became a US
territory. [see Jun 20, Jul 21]
(MC, 6/21/02)
1900 Jun 21, General Arthur
MacArthur offered amnesty to Filipinos rebelling against American
rule.
(HN, 6/21/98)
1900 Jun 21, After the Empress
declared war on all foreign powers, the Boxers began a two-month
assault on the legations in Beijing. An international force of
Japanese, Russian, German, American, British, Italian and
Austro-Hungarian troops put down the uprising by August 14. The
Boxer Rebellion was a violent, anti-foreign uprising that broke out
in reaction to years of foreign interference with Chinese affairs.
Led by a Chinese secret society called Yi He Tuan--"the Righteous,
Harmonious Fists"--the Boxers were aided by the Empress Dowager Ci
Xi and pillaged the countryside, murdering foreigners and Chinese
Christians. In 2000 Diana Preston authored “The Boxer Rebellion: The
Dramatic Story of China’s War on foreigners That Shook the World in
the Summer of 1900.”
(HNPD, 6/21/99)(WSJ, 6/20/00, p.A24)
1903 Jun 21, Al[bert]
Hirschfield, cartoonist (NINA, NY Times), was born in St Louis, Mo.
(MC, 6/21/02)
1905 Jun 21, Jean-Paul Sartre
(d.1980), French philosopher and existentialist, was born. He won
the Nobel Prize in 1964 but declined it. His works include “The Road
to Freedom.”
(HN, 6/21/98)(AP, 2/15/00)
1907 Jun 21, American newspaper
publisher E.W. Scripps founded the United Press Associations, a
forerunner of United Press International.
(AP, 6/21/07)
1908 Jun 21, Nikolai A.
Rimsky-Korsakov (64), prolific Russian composer, orchestrator
(Scheherazade, The Tsar's Bride, The Legend of the Invisible City of
Kitezh), died in Lyubensk.
(AP, 6/21/08)
1908 Jun 21, Mulai Hafid again
proclaimed himself the true sultan of Morocco.
(HN, 6/21/98)
1911 Jun 21, Albert
Hirschfield, illustrator, was born.
(HN, 6/21/01)
1911 Jun 21, Porfirio Diaz, the
ex-president of Mexico, exiled himself to Paris.
(HN, 6/21/98)
1912 Jun 21, Mary McCarthy,
American novelist whose works include “Memories of Catholic
Girlhood” and “The Group,” was born.
(HN, 6/21/98)
1915 Jun 21, Germany used
poison gas for the first time in warfare in the Argonne Forest.
(HN, 6/21/98)
1916 Jun 21, Mexican troops
beat a US expeditionary force under Gen Pershing.
(MC, 6/21/02)
1919 Jun 21, German sailors
under Admiral von Reuter scuttled 72 warships at Scapa Flow in the
Orkneys even though Germany had surrendered. It was the greatest act
of self-destruction in modern military history.
(HN, 6/21/98)(Camelot, 6/21/99)(MC, 6/21/02)
1921 Jun 21, Jane Russell
(d.2011), film star, was born in Bemidji, Minn.
(SFC, 3/1/11, p.A7)
1921 Jun 21, U.S. Army Air
Service pilots bombed the captured German battleship Ostfriesland to
demonstrate the effectiveness of aerial bombing on warships. At the
time, the ship was one of the world's largest war vessels. Brigadier
General William "Billy" Mitchell, assistant chief of the Army Air
Service, arranged the demonstration to prove that air power should
become the country's first line of defense. Most military leaders
doubted that airplanes could inflict serious damage on warships.
Mitchell's tests proved them wrong.
(HN, 6/22/99)
1922 Jun 21, Judy Holliday,
actress, was born.
(HN, 6/21/01)
1923 Jun 21, Marcus Garvey was
sentenced to 5 years for using mail to defraud.
(MC, 6/21/02)
1927 Jun 21, Carl Stokes, the
first black mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, was born.
(HN, 6/21/98)
1928 Jun 21, Judith Raskin,
soprano, was born.
(HN, 6/21/01)
1931 Jun 21, Margaret Heckler,
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Reagan
administration, was born.
(HN, 6/21/98)
1932 Jun 21, Lalo [Boris]
Schifrin, composer, was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
(MC, 6/21/02)
1932 Jun 21, Heavyweight Max
Schmeling lost a title fight by decision to Jack Sharkey;
Schmeling's manager, Joe Jacobs, exclaimed: "We was robbed!"
(AP, 6/21/97)
1934 Jun 21, [James] Thorne
Smith, US fantasy author (Stray Lamb, Turnabout), died.
(MC, 6/21/02)
1935 Jun 21, Jack Loreen (34),
holder of the world’s roller skating record from New York to Miami,
allowed himself to be buried at Balboa Street and the Great Highway
in San Francisco in a effort to beat his 65-day record, established
last year, for being buried alive in a coffin.
(SSFC, 6/20/10, DB p.50)
1936 Jun 21, The first Herb
Caen (age 20) column appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle. He
replaced J.E. "Dinty" Doyle. Executive editor Paul C. Smith had
hired Caen to write a radio column. Caen later began writing a
column about San Francisco titled “It’s News to Me,” and became the
paper’s best known writer.
(SFC, 6/5/96, p.C1)(SFEC, 2/2/97, p.A12)(SSFC,
6/7/09, p.W2)
1937 Jun 21, Wimbledon was
televised for the first time.
(Camelot, 6/21/99)
1939 Jun 21, Baseball legend
Lou Gehrig was forced to quit baseball because of amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis.
(HN, 6/21/98)
1940 Jun 21, Estonia’s Pres.
Päts appointed a new government led by PM Johannes Vares under
pressure from Andrei Zhdanov, head of the Leningrad branch of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
(www.historycommission.ee/temp/conclusions_frame.htm)
1940 Jun 21, German occupiers
disbanded the Dutch States-General, Council of State.
(MC, 6/21/02)
1942 Jun 21, President
Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill met in Washington, DC.
(MC, 6/21/02)
1942 Jun 21, German General
Erwin Rommel captured the port city of Tobruk in North Africa and
25,000 Allied troops.
(HN, 6/21/98)(Camelot, 6/21/99)
1943 Jun 21, The US Supreme
Court held the broad claims of Guglielmo Marconi's patent for
improvements in apparatus for wireless telegraphy to be invalid.
First written for publication by the Antique Wireless Association,
this monograph shows how the nation's high court arrived at its
decision. It provides an answer to the continuing argument regarding
the popular misconception that Marconi invented radio.
(www.mercurians.org/nov98/misreading.html)
1944 Jun 21, Very heavy bombing
took place on Berlin.
(MC, 6/21/02)
1945 Jun 21, Japanese forces on
Okinawa surrendered to the Americans. American soldiers on Okinawa
found the body of the Japanese commander, Lt. Gen. Mitsuru Ushijima,
who had committed suicide. The embattled destroyer USS Laffey
survived horrific damage from attacks by 22 Japanese aircraft off
Okinawa. [see Jun 22]
(HN, 6/21/98)(AP, 6/21/99)
1946 Jun 21, Bill Veeck bought
the Cleveland Indians for $2.2 million.
(MC, 6/21/02)
1948 Jun 21, The Republican
national convention opened in Philadelphia. The delegates ended up
choosing Thomas E. Dewey to be their presidential nominee.
(AP, 6/21/07)
1948 Jun 21, Lord Mountbatten
resigned as Viceroy of India.
(MC, 6/21/02)
1953 Jun 21, Benazir Bhutto,
Prime Minister of Pakistan, was born. She was elected in 1988 after
the military regime had agreed to free elections following the death
of President Zhia.
(Camelot, 6/21/99)
1955 Jun 21, The David Lean
movie "Summertime" starring Katharine Hepburn and Rossano Brazzi had
its world premiere in New York.
(AP, 6/21/05)
1958 Jun 21, A federal judge
allowed Little Rock Arkansas to delay school integration.
(HN, 6/21/98)
1963 Jun 21, Cardinal Giovanni
Battista Montini was chosen to succeed the late Pope John XXIII as
head of the Roman Catholic Church. The new pope took the name Paul
VI.
(AP, 6/21/97)
1963 Jun 21, France announced
it would withdraw from the NATO fleet in the North Atlantic.
(HN, 6/21/98)
1964 Jun 21, Byron de la
Beckwith was arrested for the murder of Medgar Evers. He was found
guilty 30 years later.
(MC, 6/21/02)
1964 Jun 21, Three young civil
rights workers, Andrew Goodman 20, Michael Schwerner 24, and James
Chaney 21, disappeared near Meridian, Mississippi. Their car was
found burning late in the day. 40 days later their bodies were found
buried in an earthen dam near Philadelphia, Miss. 8 Klansman went to
prison on federal conspiracy charges but none served more than 6
years, and murder charges were never filed. The event inspired the
1988 film Mississippi Burning. In 2005 Edgar Ray Killen (80) was
arrested in Philadelphia, Miss., and convicted of manslaughter in
the abduction and killing of the 3 voter-registration volunteers. He
was sentenced to three 20-year terms. Billy Wayne Posey (73), a key
suspect in the killings, died in 2009.
(SFEC, 2/16/97, p.A12)(AP, 6/21/97)(HN,
6/21/01)(SFC, 6/22/05, p.A1)(WSJ, 6/24/05, p.A1)(SSFC, 8/16/09,
p.A9)
1965 Jun 21, Bernard M. Baruch
(94), US presidential advisor, died.
(MC, 6/21/02)
1966 Jun 21, Reg Calvert
(b.1938), a pirate-radio operator, was shot and killed by Oliver
Smedley, an ex-army man and commercial rival. In 2010 Adrian Johns
authored “Death of a Pirate: British Radio and the Making of the
Information Age.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Calvert)(Econ, 11/20/10,
p.97)
1969 Jun 21, The 14th Symphony
by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) premiered in Moscow.
(www.c4md.org/hancher/kremerata.html)
1970 Jun 21, Penn Central was
forced into bankruptcy. The default caught the market by surprise,
largely because commercial paper ratings were in their infancy. Fed
chairman Arthur Burns reacted by making discount window loans to
banks that lent to CP issuers.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_Central_Transportation)(WSJ,
8/30/07, p.A3)
1970 Jun 21, Tony Jacklin
became the first British golfer to win the US Open for 50 years, and
with his British Open victory eleven months earlier, he became only
the third golfer to accomplish this double within a 12-month period.
(Camelot, 6/21/99)
1972 Jun 21, The TV sitcom
"Corner Bar" began its 1st of 2 seasons.
(SFEC, 3/30/97, DB.
p.35)(www.imdb.com/title/tt0546094/)
1973 Jun 21, The US Supreme
Court, in Miller v. California, ruled that states may ban materials
found to be obscene according to local standards.
(AP, 6/21/08)
1973 Jun 21, The US Supreme
Court, in Keyes v. School District No. 1, ordered the complete
desegregation of the Denver school system.
(SFC, 5/18/99,
p.A21)(http://law.jrank.org/pages/13362/Keyes-v-School-District-No-1.html)
1975 Jun 21, The West Indies,
captained by Clive Lloyd won the first World Cup Cricket series,
beating Australia by 17 runs at Lords.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Cricket_World_Cup)
1977 Jun 21, HR Haldeman,
former White House chief of staff, entered prison.
(http://openweb.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/1977-6/)
1977 Jun 21, Menachem Begin
became Israel's sixth prime minister at the head of a Likud
coalition.
(AP, 6/21/97)(WSJ, 4/29/98, p.A22)
1978 Jun 21, The musical play
“Evita” by Andrew Lloyd Weber and Tim Rice had its first stage
performance in London’s West End. It featured Elaine Page as Evita.
(TL, 1988, p.119)(SFC, 9/1/96, DB p.42)(Hem.,
1/97, p.106)(AP, 6/21/98)
1978 Jun 21, Dr. LeMaistre and
Art Dilly flew to New York City with checks totaling $2.4 million to
purchase a complete edition of the two-volume, 1456 Gutenberg Bible.
The Carl H. and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation of NYC had sold the
Gutenberg Bible to the Ransom Center of Texas.
(www.utexas.edu/news/2003/07/22/nr_hrc/)(http://tinyurl.com/32vox7)
1979 Jun 21, Mayor Diane
Feinstein returned from her visit to China, where she signed a
sister-city relationship with Shanghai. In August Wang Bingnam
announced that San Francisco and Shanghai will become “friendship
cities.”
(SFC, 6/27/96, p.A3)(SFC, 12/15/99, p.A19)(SFC,
6/18/04, p.F2)(SFC, 8/27/04, p.F2)
1982 Jun 21, A jury in
Washington, D.C., found John Hinckley Jr. innocent by reason of
insanity in the shootings of President Reagan and three other men.
(AP, 6/21/97)(HN, 6/21/98)
1982 Jun 21, Prince William,
eldest son of Prince Charles and Princess Diana, was born.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_William_of_Wales)
1985 Jun 21, American,
Brazilian and West German scientists announced that skeletal remains
exhumed in Brazil were those of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele.
(AP,
6/21/97)(www.paperlessarchives.com/mengele.html)
1987 Jun 21, Violence continued
in South Korea, where riot police broke up protests in the cities of
Seoul and Pusan for a second day.
(AP, 6/21/97)
1988 Jun 21, The Roger Rabbit
cartoon character debuted in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"
(www.metacritic.com/video/titles/whoframedrogerrabbit)
1988 Jun 21, The Los Angeles
Lakers repeated as NBA champions as they beat the Detroit Pistons,
108-105.
(AP, 6/21/98)
1988 Jun 21, Leaders of the
world's seven richest nations concluded their three-day summit in
Toronto.
(AP, 6/21/98)
1989 Jun 21, The US Supreme
Court ruled that burning the American flag as a form of political
protest is protected by the First Amendment.
(AP 6/21/97)
1990 Jun 21, An estimated
50,000 Iranians were killed in a magnitude 7.3 to 7.7 earthquake.
The earthquake killed some 35,000 people in Gilan and neighboring
Zanjan province.
(SFC, 3/1/97, p.C1)(AP, 6/21/00)(AP, 6/22/02)
1991 Jun 21, US Secretary of
State James Baker visited Yugoslavia, where he pleaded for a
peaceful solution to multi-ethnic conflicts that were threatening to
erupt into civil war.
(AP, 6/21/01)
1992 Jun 21, Democrat Bill
Clinton unveiled an economic blueprint calling for substantially
higher taxes on the rich.
(AP, 6/21/02)
1992 Jun 21, Russian President
Boris Yeltsin returned home from his North America tour.
(AP, 6/21/97)
1993 Jun 21, The US Supreme
Court ruled that Haitian boat people could be stopped at sea and
returned home without asylum hearings.
(AP, 6/21/98)
1994 Jun 21, Summer solstice.
The official beginning of summer.
(PacDis, Spring/'94, p. 40)
1994 Jun 21, President Clinton,
addressing members of the Business Roundtable, made an impassioned
call for action on health care reform.
(AP, 6/21/99)
1994 Jun 21, Seven people died
and more than 200 were sickened by fumes from the lethal nerve gas
sarin in Matsumoto in Central Japan. The Aum Shinri Kyo (Kyi) cult
(Supreme Truth) was later charged with the attack.
(SFC, 4/24/96, p.A-8)(SFC, 9/29/97, p.A13)
1994 Jun 21, American teenager
Michael Fay was released from a Singapore prison, where he'd been
flogged for vandalism.
(AP, 6/21/04)
1995 Jun 21, Dr. Henry Foster
lost a crucial Senate vote in his bid to become surgeon general as
only 57 senators voted to cut off debate, three short of the 60
needed. One last vote the next day also fell short.
(HN, 6/21/98)(AP, 6/21/00)
1996 Jun 21, Pentagon officials
said American troops destroyed an Iraqi ammunition depot in March
1991 that may have contained chemical weapons.
(AP, 6/21/06)
1996 Jun 21, The $46 million
Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art opened.
(SFC, 6/20/96, p.D1)
1996 Jun 21, Good reviews for
the new animated Disney release of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.”
(WSJ, 6/20/96, p.A12)
1996 Jun 21, European leaders
agreed to gradually lift a global ban on British beef exports
imposed nearly three months earlier following a scare over "mad cow"
disease.
(AP, 6/21/97)
1996 Jun 21, In Cambodia Khmer
Rouge guerrillas held dozens of sawmill workers for ransom and
killed 14 of them with axes.
(SFC, 6/27/96, p.A12)
1996 Jun 21, In Nicaragua 33
election workers were released after being held for 2 days by
re-armed contras in Honduras.
(SFC, 6/22/96, p.A13)
1997 Jun 21, The WNBA made its
debut as the New York Liberty defeated the Los Angeles Sparks 67-57.
(AP, 6/21/98)
1997 Jun 21, The G-7 Summit
became the G-8 with the addition of Russia at its meeting in Denver.
Moscow was admitted to the Paris Club of creditors. Summit leaders
meeting in Denver wrestled with a list of global challenges.
(SFC, 6/20/97, p.A16)(WSJ, 6/23/97, p.A1)(AP,
6/21/98)
1997 Jun 21, A terrorist bomb
rocked Belfast. Three people were slightly injured and pro-British
loyalist forces were suspected to be responsible.
(SFEC, 6/22/97, p.D1)
1997 Jun 21, Palestinian riots
spread to Nablus on the West Bank protesting Jewish settlements.
(SFEC, 6/22/97, p.D3)
1997 Jun 21, From Thailand it
was reported that operators of illegal logging ventures in northern
Thailand were feeding their elephants amphetamine-laced bananas to
speed up work before the rainy season. The practice began a few
years ago and 10 animals have died of overwork and exhaustion.
(SFC, 6/21/97, p.A11)
1998 Jun 21, In the soccer
World Cup Iran knocked out the US team 2-1.
(SFC, 6/22/98, p.A8)
1998 Jun 21, The Chechen
security chief, Lecha Khulygov, and a guerrilla commander, Vakha
Dzhafarov, fatally shot each other in an argument over a
demonstration by rebel supporters.
(SFC, 6/22/98, p.A10)
1998 Jun 21, In Colombia,
former Bogota Mayor Andres Pastrana was elected president, defeating
Horacio Serpa, a key player in the scandal-tainted administration of
President Ernesto Samper.
(SFC, 6/22/98, p.A8)(AP, 6/21/08)
1998 Jun 21, In the Czech
Republic the Social Democrats placed first in parliamentary
elections.
(WSJ, 6/22/98, p.A1)
1998 Jun 21, In England the
Druids were allowed to celebrate the Summer Solstice at Stonehenge.
(SFC, 6/22/98, p.A10)
1998 Jun 21, In India a deal
was signed in New Delhi with Russia to build power plants for two
nuclear reactors.
(SFC, 6/23/98, p.A12)
1998 Jun 21, The Israeli
Cabinet approved a plan to expand Jerusalem’s control far beyond its
current borders, despite protests from Palestinians and warnings
from Washington that the move was “provocative.”
(SFC, 6/22/98, p.A8)
1998 Jun 21, In Moscow a
violent storm left 6 dead and heavy damage to the Bolshoi Theater
and the wall of the Kremlin.
(SFC, 6/22/98, p.A10)
1998 Jun 21, In the soccer
World Cup Iran knocked out the US team 2-1.
(SFC, 6/22/98, p.A8)
1998 Jun 21, The Chechen
security chief, Lecha Khulygov, and a guerrilla commander, Vakha
Dzhafarov, fatally shot each other in an argument over a
demonstration by rebel supporters.
(SFC, 6/22/98, p.A10)
1998 Jun 21, In Colombia,
former conservative Bogota mayor Andres Pastrana was elected the
country's president, defeating Horacio Serpa, a key player in the
scandal-tainted administration of President Ernesto Samper.
(SFC, 6/22/98, p.A8)(AP, 6/21/99)
1998 Jun 21, In the Czech
Republic the Social Democrats placed first in parliamentary
elections.
(WSJ, 6/22/98, p.A1)
1998 Jun 21, In England the
Druids were allowed to celebrate the Summer Solstice at Stonehenge.
(SFC, 6/22/98, p.A10)
1998 Jun 21, In India a deal
was signed in New Delhi with Russia to build power plants for two
nuclear reactors.
(SFC, 6/23/98, p.A12)
1998 Jun 21, The Israeli
Cabinet approved a plan to expand Jerusalem’s control far beyond its
current borders, despite protests from Palestinians and warnings
from Washington that the move was “provocative.”
(SFC, 6/22/98, p.A8)
1998 Jun 21, In Moscow a
violent storm left 6 dead and heavy damage to the Bolshoi Theater
and the wall of the Kremlin.
(SFC, 6/22/98, p.A10)
1998 Jun 21, Elections were
held in Togo. When returns showed Pres. Eyadama trailing one of his
generals took over the ballot counting. Soldiers killed hundreds.
Vote counting stopped, and Eyadema was declared winner.
(SFC, 6/25/98, p.A12)(SFC, 7/24/99, p.C1)(AP,
6/1/03)
1999 Jun 21, Pres. Clinton
visited Slovenia, met with Pres. Milan Kucan, and praised the
country for standing up to Milosevic and declaring independence.
(SFC, 6/22/99, p.A12)
1999 Jun 21, US warplanes
bombed Iraqi air defense sites in the northern and southern no-fly
zones.
(SFC, 6/22/99, p.A12)
1999 Jun 21, In Colombia FARC
guerrillas attacked the paramilitary United Self Defense Forces
(AUC) in the Nudo de Paramillo mountain range. At least 68 people
were reported killed in the fighting.
(SFC, 6/24/99, p.A10)
1999 Jun 21, Fighting broke out
in the Republic of Congo near the main port of Pointe-Noire. 140
people were reported killed by the end of the week.
(SFC, 6/25/99, p.D2)
1999 Jun 21, Indian soldiers
cleared Islamic guerrillas from a 2nd mountain outpost, Point 5203,
and killed at least 10 guerrillas.
(SFC, 6/22/99, p.A12)
1999 Jun 21, In Kosovo 2
soldiers of the British Nepalese Gurkha force and 2 civilians were
killed as ammunition was being cleared in Negrovce. Refugee Serbs
demonstrated against Milosevic for abandoning them in Kosovo.
(SFC, 6/22/99, p.A1,11)
1999 Jun 21, NATO finalized an
agreement with the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) to demilitarize.
(SFC, 6/21/99, p.A1)
1999 Jun 21, It was reported
that Libya would pay $40 million to the families of those killed in
the Sep 19, 1989 bombing of a French jet.
(SFC, 6/22/99, p.A12)
2000 Jun 21, Some 55 years
after World War Two ended, 22 Asian-American veterans received the
Medal of Honor for bravery on the battlefield during a White House
ceremony.
(AP, 6/21/01)
2000 Jun 21, In San Leandro,
Ca., Stuart Alexander (39), owner of the Santo Linguisa sausage
factory, shot and killed 3 government meat inspectors, Jean Hillery
(56), Tom Quadros (52), and Bill Shaline (57). In 2004 Alexander was
convicted of 3 counts of 1st-degree murder. In 2005 Alexander was
sentenced to death.
(SFC, 6/22/00, p.A1)(SFC, 6/23/00, p.A6)(SFC,
10/20/04, p.B1)(SFC, 2/16/05, p.B5)
2000 Jun 21, In Chechnya 2
Russian soldiers were killed and 2 wounded in a rebel ambush near
Mesker-Yurt.
(SFC, 6/23/00, p.A20)
2000 Jun 21, North Korea
extended its ban on missile flight-testing and the US responded with
plans to renew talks to curb the long-range missile program. North
Korea promised to refrain from long-range missile tests after the
United States lifted some economic sanctions against it.
(SFC, 6/22/00, p.A12)(AP, 6/21/01)
2001 Jun 21, A federal grand
jury in Alexandria, Va., indicted 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the
1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19
American servicemen.
(AP, 6/21/02)
2001 Jun 21, The first total
solar eclipse of the new millennium swept across southern Africa.
(AP, 6/21/02)
2001 Jun 21, Carroll O’Connor
(b.1924), actor known for his role as Archie Bunker in the TV series
"All in the Family," died at age 76.
(SFC, 6/22/01, p.A1)(NW, 12/31/01, p.110)
2001 Jun 21, John Lee Hooker
(b.1917), blues musician, died at age 83. His tunes included "Boom,
Boom," and "Boogie Chillen."
(SFC, 6/22/01, p.A1)(NW, 12/31/01, p.108)
2001 Jun 21, In China jailed
Falun Gong members attempted a group suicide in a northeast labor
camp. 10-14 reportedly died by hanging.
(SFC, 7/4/01, p.A11)(WSJ, 7/5/01, p.A8)
2001 Jun 21, In Northern
Ireland police and British soldiers battled Catholic and Protestant
rioters in Belfast for a 2nd day and 3rd night. 39 police officers
were injured.
(SFC, 6/22/01, p.A14)(WSJ, 6/22/01, p.A1)
2001 Jun 21, In Japan PM
Koizumi outlined an aggressive economic reform program that promised
to shrink the government and create new economic incentives. Banks
were given 2-3 years to solve their bad-loan problems.
(SFC, 6/22/01, p.A15)(WSJ, 6/22/01, p.A11)
2001 Jun 21, In the Philippines
3 severed heads were found in the area where Muslim extremists
claimed to have killed Guillermo Sobero of Riverside, Ca.
(SFC, 6/22/01, p.A15)
2002 Jun 21, One of the worst
wildfires in Arizona history grew to 128,000 acres, forcing
thousands of homeowners near the community of Show Low to flee.
(AP, 6/21/03)
2002 cJun 21, Timothy Findley
(d.2002), Canadian writer, died in France. His novels included “The
Wars” (1977), and “Pilgrim” (1999).
(SFC, 6/22/02, p.A18)
2002 Jun 21, In Burundi a court
has sentenced 11 people to death and 16 others to life imprisonment
for taking part in massacres that followed the 1993 assassination of
Burundi's first democratically elected leader.
(AP, 6/21/02)
2002 Jun 21, Israeli tanks
opened fire on the market in the northern West Bank town of Jenin,
killing 4 Palestinians, including 3 children, hospital officials
said. The Israeli army said soldiers had mistakenly fired on a group
of curfew violators. Israelis from the West Bank settlement of
Itamar returning from funerals killed a Palestinian during a rampage
in the village of Hawara.
(AP, 6/21/02)
2002 Jun 21, In Kashmir 13
suspected Islamic militants were killed in the Indian-controlled
section. Rebels killed Ghulam Rasool, a member of the governing
national Conference Party. In the Pakistan-controlled section a
sniper opened fire on a truck carrying 22 people and 10 were killed
when it plunged into a ravine.
(SFC, 6/22/02, p.A6)
2002 Jun 21, Abu Sabaya (Aldam
Tilao), one of the Philippines' most wanted Muslim rebels and the
key man in last year's kidnapping of a U.S. missionary couple, was
reportedly shot and likely killed in a clash with government troops.
(Reuters, 6/21/02)(SFC, 6/22/02, p.A6)
2002 Jun 21, Two car bombs
exploded at Spanish coastal resort as a European Union summit got
under way about 90 miles away at a heavily guarded convention center
in Seville.
(AP, 6/21/02)
2003 Jun 21, Lennox Lewis
retained his heavyweight title after a cut stopped Vitali Klitschko
after six brawling rounds in Los Angeles.
(AP, 6/21/04)
2003 Jun 21, Ten weeks after
the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, President Bush offered a
broadly positive status report on the U.S. mission in Iraq in his
weekly radio address.
(AP, 6/21/04)
2003 Jun 21, J.K. Rowling's 5th
Harry Potter book, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," went
on sale.
(SFC, 6/21/03, p.A1)
2003 Jun 21, George Axelrod
(b.1922), playwright, died in Los Angeles. His plays included "The
Seven Year Itch" (1952).
(SSFC, 6/22/03, p.A27)
2003 Jun 21, Leon Uris (78),
author, died on New York's Shelter Island. His books included
"Battle Cry" (1953), the best-selling "Exodus" (1958) and "Mila 18"
(1960).
(AP, 6/24/03)(SFC, 6/25/03, p.A25)
2003 Jun 21, In Afghanistan
Abdul Wali (28), a detainee held at a US base, died following 2 days
of interrogation. In 2004 David A. Passaro, former Army Ranger, was
charged with assault in connection to Wali’s death. In 2006 Passaro,
a former CIA contractor, was convicted in North Carolina of
assaulting Abdul Wali with a metal flashlight. In 2007 Passaro was
sentenced to 8 ½ years in prison.
(SFC, 6/18/04, p.A1)(SFC, 8/18/06, p.A5)(SFC,
2/14/07, p.A3)
2003 Jun 21, China's Xinhua
News Agency reported that archaeologists in western China had
discovered five earthenware jars of 2,000-year-old rice wine in an
ancient Han dynasty tomb (206BCE-25CE), and its bouquet was still
strong enough to perk up the nose.
(AP, 6/21/03)
2003 Jun 21, Chancellor Gerhard
Schroeder appealed for a swift end to three weeks of union strikes
demanding a shorter work week in formerly communist eastern Germany,
warning of further damage to the already weak economy.
(AP, 6/21/03)
2003 Jun 21, The Israeli army
killed Abdullah Kawasme, a local Hamas leader, in the West Bank town
of Hebron.
(AP, 6/22/03)(SSFC, 6/22/03, p.A9)
2004 Jun 21, The US Supreme
Court ruled 5-4 that people can be arrested for refusing to give
their names to police even if no crime is alleged.
(WSJ, 6/22/04, p.A1)
2004 Jun 21, Connecticut Gov.
John G. Rowland announced his resignation, amid a federal corruption
investigation and a growing move to impeach him.
(AP, 6/21/04)
2004 Jun 21, SpaceShipOne
lifted off from the Mojave Desert in the initial stage of the
world's first attempted commercial space flight. SpaceShipOne
reached 62.21 miles. It was designed by legendary aerospace designer
Burt Rutan and was built with more than $20 million in funding by
billionaire Paul Allen. It was piloted by Michael Melvill.
(AP, 6/21/04)(WSJ, 6/22/04, p.A1)
2004 Jun 21, In northeastern
Bangladesh a bomb exploded at an opposition rally wounding nearly 40
people.
(AP, 6/21/04)
2004 Jun 21, Ephrem Nkezabera
(52), a former Rwandan banker, was arrested in Brussels and held on
charges of genocide and crimes against humanity in the 1994 Rwandan
massacre.
(AP, 7/30/04)
2004 Jun 21, In central Bolivia
a crowded bus plunged off a 800-foot precipice, killing as many as
38 people.
(AP, 6/23/04)
2004 Jun 21, Leonel Brizola
(b.1922), former governor of Rio Grande do Sul and Rio de Janeiro
states, died of a heart attack. Brizola, one of Brazil's most
notable leftist politicians, created and armed the so-called "Groups
of 11," cells designed to resist the military dictatorship.
(AP, 6/22/04)(SFC, 6/24/04, p.B6)
2004 Jun 21, Local and
international police officials warned that Europe is awash in
counterfeit euro bills of excellent quality.
(AP, 6/21/04)
2004 Jun 21, In Iraq ambushes
in Ramadi left 4 US soldiers dead. A roadside bomb south of Mosul
killed 5 Iraqi contractors.
(SFC, 6/22/04, p.D1)
2004 Jun 21, Iran’s
Revolutionary Guards, known as Pasdaran, confiscated three British
military vessels and arrested eight armed crew members in the Shatt
al-Arab waterway. The men were released 2 days later.
(AP, 6/21/04)(SFC, 6/24/04, p.A12)(Econ, 4/7/07,
p.24)
2004 Jun 21, A Swiss court
cleared the way for Gypsies to sue IBM over allegations that the
computer company's expertise helped the Nazis commit mass murder
more efficiently.
(AP, 6/22/04)
2004 Jun 21, Vietnam's central
bank said it has given approval to the US-based Far East National
Bank to open a branch in Ho Chi Minh City, the 3rd US bank branched
in Vietnam.
(AP, 6/21/04)
2005 Jun 21, President Bush
told Vietnamese Prime Minister Phan Van Khai that he supports
Vietnam's bid to join the WTO, in the first visit by the Vietnamese
leader since the war.
(AP, 6/21/05)
2005 Jun 21, It was reported
that the number of California state employees who earned over
$132,000 nearly doubled from 2002 to 2004.
(SFC, 6/21/05, p.A1)
2005 Jun 21, American warplanes
pounded a suspected Taliban safe haven in southern Afghanistan in an
assault that left up to 76 insurgents and five policeman dead and
five U.S. soldiers wounded.
(AP, 6/22/05)(SFC, 6/23/05, p.A10)
2005 Jun 21, Edgar Ray Killen
(80) was convicted in Philadelphia, Miss., of manslaughter in the
1964 abduction and killing of 3 voter-registration volunteers.
(SFC, 6/22/05, p.A1)
2005 Jun 21, US researchers
said a common virus that is harmless to people can destroy cancerous
cells in the body and might be developed into a new cancer therapy.
The adeno-associated virus type 2, or AAV-2, infects an estimated 80
percent of the population.
(Reuters, 6/22/05)
2005 Jun 21, In Argentina
retired Gen. Guillermo Suarez Mason (81), a former junta commander
under arrest in connection with probes of suspected illegal
adoptions dating to the past dictatorship.
(AP, 6/21/05)
2005 Jun 21, Austria’s Health
Minister Maria Rauch-Kallat announced a cow in an alpine farm
Austria has been found to be infected with mad cow disease.
(AP, 6/21/05)
2005 Jun 21, China appointed
Donald Tsang as Hong Kong's new leader for the next 2 years. The
veteran civil servant expressed confidence the territory will become
more democratic.
(AP, 6/21/05)
2005 Jun 21, In Ecuador police
reported the break up an international cocaine ring led by a
Lebanese restaurant owner suspected of raising money for Hezbollah,
the Shiite Muslim group the U.S. classifies as a terrorist
organization.
(AP, 6/22/05)
2005 Jun 21, President Bharrat
Jagdeo said Guyana will hire 600 new police officers and loosen
rules on wiretapping and asset seizures as part of a strategy to
fight increasing drug trafficking.
(AP, 6/21/05)
2005 Jun 21, In Iraq 3 US
soldiers were killed by small-arms fire during combat operations in
Ramadi.
(AP, 6/22/05)
2005 Jun 21, In southern Israel
a passenger train plowed into a coal truck and sent three cars
tumbling off the tracks in a sunflower field, killing seven people
and injuring nearly 200.
(AP, 6/21/05)
2005 Jun 21, A high-level
delegation from North Korea arrived in Seoul for bilateral talks and
was immediately confronted by demonstrators who angered the visitors
by displaying posters of their leader, Kim Jong Il, tied up in
ropes.
(AP, 6/21/05)
2005 Jun 21, The International
Whaling Commission meting in South Korea upheld its nearly
two-decade-old ban on commercial whaling.
(AP, 6/21/05)
2005 Jun 21, In Lebanon George
Hawi (67), a former Communist boss and critic of Syria, was killed
when his car blew up on a Beirut street in the 2nd slaying of an
anti-Syrian figure this month.
(AP, 6/24/05)
2005 Jun 21, Nuevo Laredo Mayor
Daniel Pena said that 150 police officers will be fired after
failing a screening process that included background checks and drug
testing. Former Mexican soldiers, turned into drug hit men (Zetas),
have taken the border city to the brink of anarchy, infiltrating
local police and threatening anyone who gets in their way.
(AP, 6/21/05)
2005 Jun 21, Palestinian leader
Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon met for the
first time since declaring a February truce, but the summit was
clouded by Israel's arrest of 52 Islamic Jihad activists and a
missile strike in the Gaza Strip.
(AP, 6/21/05)
2005 Jun 21, In Manila Cardinal
Jaime Sin (76), an outspoken advocate of democracy who played a key
role in the "people power" revolts that ousted two Philippine
presidents, died.
(AP, 6/21/05)(Econ, 7/2/05, p.77)
2005 Jun 21, A Russian Northern
Fleet submarine launched the world's first solar-sail spacecraft, $4
million Cosmos 1, but the craft failed to reach orbit.
(AFP, 6/22/05)(SFC, 6/22/05, p.A4)
2005 Jun 21, Saudi security
forces killed two suspected terrorists accused of fatally shooting a
senior security official outside his home.
(AP, 6/21/05)
2005 Jun 21, Taiwan sent two
warships to protect fishermen who have repeatedly been chased by
Japanese patrol boats away from rich fishing grounds near disputed
islands in the East China Sea, a decision likely to raise diplomatic
tensions.
(AP, 6/21/05)
2006 Jun 21, The US Marine
Corps announced that seven Marines and a sailor had been charged
with murdering an Iraqi civilian in April. The sailor and three
Marines later pleaded guilty to lesser charges.
(AP, 6/21/07)
2006 Jun 21, Federal
prosecutors charged more than three dozen members of a Chicago
street gang with running a drug ring that sold crack cocaine,
marijuana, heroin and the potentially lethal prescription painkiller
fentanyl.
(AP, 6/21/06)
2006 Jun 21, In Tallahassee,
Florida, corrections officer Ralph Hill, an Air Force veteran, had
smuggled a gun into the prison and opened fire on FBI agents and
Justice Department investigators. Hill (43) and Justice Department
special agent William "Buddy" Sentner (44) were killed, and a prison
employee helping with the arrests was wounded. The federal agents
were trying to arrest Hill and five others indicted in a
sex-for-contraband scandal.
(AP, 6/22/06)
2006 Jun 21, A nonprofit
think-tank said chief executive officers in the US earned 262 times
the pay of an average worker in 2005, the second-highest level in
the 40 years for which there is data.
(AP, 6/22/06)
2006 Jun 21, In California some
830 firefighters battled a fire in the Los Padres National Forest,
which grew to an estimated 14,000 acres. It was 35% contained.
(SFC, 6/22/06, p.B4)
2006 Jun 21, It was reported
that the pair of moons orbiting Pluto were officially christened Nix
and Hydra last week by the International Astronomical Union, which
is in charge of approving celestial names.
(AP, 6/22/06)
2006 Jun 21, In Afghanistan 4
US soldiers were killed in a battle with Taliban insurgents in
northeastern Nuristan province. 17 insurgents were killed after
coalition forces surprised them setting up an ambush site near Tirin
Kot, the capital of Uruzgan province.
(SFC, 6/23/06, p.A13)(AP, 6/24/06)
2006 Jun 21, Australian
soldiers in Baghdad mistakenly opened fire on Iraqi Trade Minister
Abdul Falah al-Sudany's bodyguards, killing one and wounding three
people. The Australian government apologized the next day.
(AP, 6/22/06)
2006 Jun 21, Scores of students
chanting "Bush Go Home!" marched through Austria's capital to
protest a visit by President Bush for the annual US-EU summit. The
summit produced no breakthroughs but showed Bush moving toward
better cooperation with Europe on Iran, energy, climate change and
other fronts. Bush accused Iran of dragging its feet on a Western
incentive package aimed at getting Tehran to suspend uranium
enrichment activity.
(AP, 6/21/06)(WSJ, 6/22/06, p.A4)(AP, 6/21/07)
2006 Jun 21, Chinese Premier
Wen Jiabao flew into South Africa on the fifth leg of an African
tour where he is due to sign a nuclear cooperation pact and hold
talks on the thorny question of textile imports from Beijing.
(AP, 6/21/06)
2006 Jun 21, Juan Carlos
Robinson Agramonte (49), a Communist official long held up as an
example of Cuba’s future leadership, was sentenced to 12 years in
prison for influence-peddling.
(AP, 6/22/06)
2006 Jun 21, East Timorese PM
Mari Alkatiri likely will resign, his spokesman said, as the
country's president and members of the beleaguered leader's own
party joined a chorus of people saying he no longer had their trust.
(AP, 6/21/06)
2006 Jun 21, Indian PM Manmohan
Singh laid the foundation stone for an ambitious $4.2 billion metro
rail scheme to tackle traffic woes in the western economic centre of
Mumbai.
(AFP, 6/21/06)
2006 Jun 21, Indonesian
officials said heavy rains unleashed floods and landslides on a
Sulawesi island, killing at least 112 people.
(AP, 6/21/06)
2006 Jun 21, President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad said his country will respond in mid-August to the
package of incentives on its nuclear program offered by the West.
"We are studying the proposals. Hopefully, we will present our views
about the package by mid-August."
(AP, 6/21/06)
2006 Jun 21, Khamis al-Obeidi,
one of Saddam Hussein's main lawyers, was shot to death after he was
abducted from his Baghdad home by men wearing police uniforms. This
was the third killing of a member of the former leader's defense
team since the trial started some eight months ago. An al-Qaida-led
insurgent group said in an Internet statement that it has decided to
kill four Russian Embassy workers, kidnapped on June 3, after a
deadline for meeting its demands passed. A parked car bombing struck
a Shiite slum in Baghdad, killing at least two people and wounding
three. Gunmen abducted about 85 workers and family members at the
end of a factory shift at the al-Nasr plant between Baghdad and
Taji. About 30 of the hostages, mainly women and children, were
released shortly after they were taken captive. A US soldier died
south of Baghdad.
(AP, 6/21/06)(AP, 6/22/06)
2006 Jun 21, The Ivory Coast
soccer team, the Elephants, won their 1st ever World Cup match in a
Group C consolation game against Serbia-Montenegro 3-2. They lost
their first 2 games against Argentina and the Netherlands.
(http://msn.foxsports.com/soccer/worldcup/team?statsId=615)
2006 Jun 21, Japan agreed to
lift its ban on US beef imports, pending planned inspections of US
meat processing plants.
(AP, 6/21/06)
2006 Jun 21, In Indian Kashmir
5 Hindu pilgrims were injured in a grenade attack on their bus by
suspected Islamic militants. A senior rebel and a political activist
were killed in separate incidents.
(AFP, 6/21/06)
2006 Jun 21, In Nepal a small
plane carrying nine Nepalese crashed into a mountain as it was
approaching an airstrip.
(AP, 6/21/06)
2006 Jun 21, Nigeria’s Pres.
Olusegun removed Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala from the finance ministry and
installed her as the foreign minister.
(Econ, 2/28/04,
p.46)(http://people.africadatabase.org/en/person/16262.html)
2006 Jun 21, In Karachi,
Pakistan, police arrested Usman Kurd, a Sunni Muslim extremist,
allegedly behind multiple attacks that killed more than 150 people,
mainly Shiite Muslims, in southwestern Pakistan since 1999. 3
Pakistani soldiers were killed and 3 wounded when a bomb exploded
near a military convoy in the restive tribal belt bordering
Afghanistan. The attack came hours after a Pakistani military
helicopter crashed into a dam shortly after take-off from Bannu,
leaving one soldier dead and three missing.
(AP, 6/21/06)(AFP, 6/21/06)
2006 Jun 21, The parties behind
Ukraine's Orange Revolution agreed to form a coalition government,
ending three months of tense talks to preserve a pro-Western
government that has sought to shed Russia's influence.
(AP, 6/21/06)
2007 Jun 21, Britain and the
United States signed a treaty to cut red tape on arms deals and
improve the compatibility of military equipment.
(AP, 6/21/07)
2007 Jun 21, Assistant
Secretary of State Christopher Hill, the chief US nuclear envoy,
made a rare trip to North Korea in a surprise bid to accelerate
international efforts to press the communist government to abandon
its nuclear weapons program.
(AP, 6/21/08)
2007 Jun 21, Vietnam's
President Nguyen Minh Triet heard a barrage of criticism during his
historic visit to Washington, with angry US lawmakers saying ties
between the former enemies will stagnate until Vietnam's dismal
human rights record improves.
(AP, 6/21/07)
2007 Jun 21, In SF Mayor
Newsome described a plan to reduce the number of trash cans in SF as
part of a larger pledge to reduce litter by 50% over the next 5
years. Some 305 of 5,000 cans have been removed since January due to
alleged inappropriate use by neighbors.
(SFC, 6/27/07, p.B12)
2007 Jun 21, In Kentucky a
cable broke on the superman Tower of Power ride at the Six Flags
Kentucky Freedom park in Louisville and sliced off the feet of a
13-year-old girl.
(SFC, 6/23/07, p.B2)
2007 Jun 21, Bob Evans (89),
sausage maven, died in Ohio. In 2007 his Bob Evans Farms restaurant
chain, begun in 1953, numbered 579 outlets in 18 states.
(WSJ, 6/23/07, p.A8)(AP, 6/21/08)
2007 Jun 21, In eastern
Afghanistan a land mine explosion killed a NATO soldier and wounded
four more. An official said the UN World Food Program has halted aid
deliveries in Afghanistan's most volatile provinces after 85 of its
trucks were attacked, set ablaze or looted in the last year by
Taliban insurgents and thieves.
(AP, 6/21/07)
2007 Jun 21, Australia's PM
John Howard announced plans for the federal government to take
control of 60 aboriginal communities in the Northern Territories.
Plans also included a ban on pornography and alcohol for Aborigines
in the northern areas and tightened control over their welfare
benefits to fight child sex abuse among them.
(AP, 6/21/07)(Econ, 6/30/07, p.50)
2007 Jun 21, In London,
England, Damien Hirst’s “Lullaby spring” sold for $19.1 million, the
highest price paid at auction for a work by a living artist. The
work consisted of a stainless steel cabinet containing 6,136
hand-crafted and painted pills. It was purchased by Sheikha
al-Mayassa al-Thani, the daughter of the emir of Qatar.
(SFC, 6/23/07, p.E4)(Econ, 9/11/10, p.99)
2007 Jun 21, A hitman sent to
Britain to kill Boris Berezovsky (61) was arrested by British
security services as he planned the murder. He was turned over
to immigration services and soon deported.
(www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article2096367.ece)
2007 Jun 21, At Stonehenge,
England, Druids, drummers, pagans and partygoers welcomed the sun as
it rose above the prehistoric monument of Stonehenge on the longest
day of the year, the summer solstice.
(AP, 6/21/07)
2007 Jun 21, China signed an
agreement to cancel Iraqi debt at a ceremony after a meeting between
Chinese President Hu Jintao and his Iraqi counterpart Jalal
Talabani. State media reported no more brightly dyed hair, flashy
jewelry or smoking in public for China's police while they're in
uniform.
(AP, 6/21/07)
2007 Jun 21, China's special
envoy on Darfur said his country will seriously consider sending
troops for a peacekeeping mission in the war-torn Sudanese region
and insisted Beijing is doing its best to help solve the conflict.
(AP, 6/21/07)
2007 Jun 21, Leaders of the
EU's 27 nations gathered to discuss a new EU treaty.
(AP, 6/21/07)
2007 Jun 21, The European Court
of Human Rights found the Russian authorities responsible for the
killings of four members of a Chechen family in 2003 and ordered
Moscow to pay a relative $114,000.
(AP, 6/21/07)
2007 Jun 21, Talks in Germany
between the US, EU, India and Brazil to save the World Trade
Organization’s (WTO) Doha round of free trade negotiations
collapsed.
(Reuters, 6/21/07)
2007 Jun 21, A suicide truck
bomber struck the Sulaiman Bek city hall in a predominantly Sunni
area in northern Iraq, killing at least 17 people, including the
mayor, and wounded 66 in a predominantly Sunni area of northern
Iraq. 5 US troops were killed in a single roadside bombing that also
killed four Iraqis in Baghdad. A rocket-propelled grenade struck a
vehicle in northern Baghdad, killing one soldier and wounding three
others. US soldiers detained 18 suspected militants in raids
targeting roadside bomb networks in the Baghdad area.
(AP, 6/21/07)(AP, 6/22/07)
2007 Jun 21, Mario Villanueva,
the former Mexican governor of Quintana Roo, was freed after six
years behind bars and immediately re-arrested on a US extradition
request in which he is accused of helping smuggle 200 tons of
cocaine into the United States.
(AP, 6/21/07)
2007 Jun 21, In Nigeria police
used tear gas on strikers manning a barricade in Lagos as the second
day of a general strike brought parts of Africa's largest oil
producer to a standstill. Two Nigerian employees of Italian oil
company Agip were killed when troops stormed an oil facility to free
hostages in the Niger delta. A total of 20 people were killed in the
operation, including 15 militants.
(AFP, 6/21/07)(AFP, 6/27/07)
2007 Jun 21, In Pakistan
thousands rallied in support of the suspended chief justice,
accusing President Gen. Pervez Musharraf of attacking the judiciary
and burning a US flag to protest Washington's backing for the
general's continued rule. Pakistani traders announced a reward of 10
million rupees (165,000 dollars) for anyone who beheads Salman
Rushdie following Britain's decision to award the novelist a
knighthood. Islamic scholars bestowed a top honor on Osama bin Laden
in response to the British accolade.
(AP, 6/21/07)(AFP, 6/21/07)
2007 Jun 21, Peru's Congress
voted overwhelmingly to lower the age to 14 for participating in
consensual sex, a move some activists said could expose children to
sexual abuse.
(AP, 6/23/07)
2007 Jun 21, Portugal
introduced a new law that allows abortion up to the 10th week of
pregnancy, but imposes a three-day reflection period for women
seeking the procedure and grants doctors the right to opt out on
moral grounds.
(AP, 6/21/07)
2007 Jun 21, In Russia a fire
swept through a nursing home in Western Siberia's Omsk region and
killed at least 10 people.
(AP, 6/21/07)
2007 Jun 21, Thai prosecutors
filed corruption charges against ousted PM Thaksin Shinawatra in the
Supreme Court, in the first formal charges lodged against the exiled
former premier. Separatist militants in southern Thailand shot a
Muslim man and then partially severed his head, while the nation's
junta leader was visiting the region. A 54-year-old Buddhist was
gunned down in a drive-by shooting.
(AP, 6/21/07)(AFP, 6/22/07)
2008 Jun 21, In New Jersey
Scott Kalitta died when his Funny Car crashed and burst into flames
during the final round of qualifying for the Lucas Oil NHRA
SuperNationals at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park.
(AP, 6/21/08)
2008 Jun 21, The flooding in
the Midwest has brought freight traffic on the upper Mississippi to
a standstill, stranding more than 100 barges loaded with grain,
cement, scrap metal, fertilizer and other products while shippers
wait for the water to drop on the Big Muddy.
(AP, 6/21/08)
2008 Jun 21, In SF a father and
2 sons were shot and killed in the Excelsior district during a minor
traffic encounter. On Jun 25 Edwin Ramos (21), an alleged member of
MS-13, was arrested in El Sobrante on murder charges.
(SFC, 6/26/08, p.A1)
2008 Jun 21, In Afghanistan 5
foreign troops including a Polish national were slain in bombings,
extending a series of daily attacks that have lifted the death toll
for foreign forces this year to more than 100. In separate incidents
attackers detonated bombs and opened fire on vehicles carrying
Afghan troops in Zabul and Kunar provinces, killing five soldiers
and wounding three. Afghan and coalition forces attacked and killed
several militants manning a lookout post in Zabul province. Rockets
fired from Pakistan hit a village in eastern Afghanistan killing a
woman and three children, one of three cross-border attacks around
the same late evening time. A total of 27 rockets were fired from
Pakistan to the Afghan provinces of Paktika and Khost. Afghan troops
responded by firing 19 artillery rounds from Khost and nine rounds
from Paktika which landed in Pakistan.
(AP, 6/21/08)(Reuters, 6/22/08)(AP, 6/26/08)
2008 Jun 21, Sean Langan (43),
British freelance television journalist, was released by kidnappers
along the Afghan-Pakistan border after being held for 3 months.
Langan has spent the last few years making films about Afghanistan,
Iraq and Zimbabwe, and his documentary "Fighting the Taliban" was
short-listed for a Bafta this year.
(AFP, 6/24/08)
2008 Jun 21, Paris Mayor
Bernard Delanoe blamed "organized gangs" for clashes overnight near
the Eiffel Tower between police and high school students celebrating
the end of their final exams. 29 people were arrested, and 22 kept
in custody, after the unrest in the Champ de Mars park.
(AFP, 6/21/08)
2008 Jun 21, India's finance
minister warned against "panic" and promised more measures to tame
prices, a day after the country's inflation rate shot to a 13-year
high.
(AP, 6/21/08)
2008 Jun 21, In Iraq two Shiite
brothers, kidnapped just weeks after their family returned to a
mainly Sunni area outside Baqouba, were found shot to death.
(AP, 6/21/08)
2008 Jun 21, Mexican soldiers
captured at least 10 suspected members of a Tijuana-based drug
cartel in a raid on a child's baptism party in Tijuana. A total of
61 people were arrested in the sweep, including the band hired to
play the party and three city police officers.
(AP, 6/23/08)
2008 Jun 21, Four French
nationals, all Niger-based employees of the nuclear company Areva,
were abducted by rebels from the Movement for Justice in a part of
Niger known for its uranium mines. They were freed on June 25.
(AP, 6/25/08)
2008 Jun 21, In the Philippines
the Princess of Stars, carrying 862 passengers and crew, ran aground
and capsized 3 km (2 miles) from Sibuyan island in the centre of the
archipelago. Nearly 800 passengers were missing as Typhoon Fengshen
killed scores and left a trail of destruction across the
archipelago. Only 48 survivors of the ferry were found, including 28
rescued the next day.
(Reuters, 6/22/08)(AP, 6/23/08)(Econ, 6/28/08,
p.49)
2008 Jun 21, In Rwanda 20 baby
gorillas were "baptized" in a ceremony seen as a way to raise
awareness of the threats facing the endangered species. The babies
were represented by 20 figurines in the ceremony, attended by
Rwanda's first lady Jeannette Kagame, on the edge of Volcano
national park. The ceremony was the 4th of its kind in Rwanda in as
many years.
(AFP, 6/22/08)
2008 Jun 21, Serb authorities
turned over an ex-Bosnian Serb police chief to the Yugoslav war
crimes tribunal in the Netherlands. Stojan Zupljanin was arrested in
the town of Pancevo last week after nine years on the run.
(AP, 6/21/08)
2008 Jun 21, In Somalia Hassan
Mohamed Ali, head of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees
organization in Mogadishu, was abducted from his home on the
outskirts of Mogadishu. He was released in late August. He had
suffered bullet wounds in the neck and knee from the kidnapping, but
said that he was generally treated well during his captivity.
(AP, 8/28/08)
2008 Jun 21, South Korea said
it will resume imports of US beef after American and South Korean
suppliers agreed to block meat from older cattle, aiming to soothe
health concerns that sparked weeks of demonstrations against new
President Lee Myung-bak. Over 10,000 people rallied in central Seoul
to protest the US beef imports.
(AP, 6/22/08)(SSFC, 6/22/08, p.A11)
2008 Jun 21, Sri Lanka launched
air attacks in rebel-held territory in the island's north as ground
troops killed at least four guerrillas.
(AP, 6/21/08)
2008 Jun 21, A Sudanese
official said Sudan is grounding its national carrier Sudan Airways
from June 23 for at least a month for breaking civil aviation rules,
mainly over administration. On June 23 the Civil Aviation Authority
agreed to a one month reprieve.
(AP, 6/21/08)(AFP, 6/24/08)
2009 Jun 21, In Afghanistan a
rare rocket attack on Bagram Air Base, the main US base, killed two
US troops and wounded six other Americans, including two civilians.
(AP, 6/21/09)
2009 Jun 21, In northeastern
Central African Republic 10 people were killed in an attack on the
town of Birao. A UFDR spokesman said armed men attacked a base of
the former rebels of the Union of Democratic Forces for the Rally,
two weeks after a similar attack. They were described as "thieves"
from the Kara tribe, an ethnic minority within the UFDR, whose
members oppose the leadership of Zakaria Damane, head of the
movement.
(AFP, 6/22/09)
2009 Jun 21, In China the
Danish-Swedish comedy “Original,” about mental illness, won the best
picture at the 12th Shanghai International Film Festival. It also
took the best actor award for lead Sverrir Gudnason.
(AFP, 6/22/09)
2009 Jun 21, Haiti held Senate
run-offs elections. Fed up with chronic poverty and unresponsive
leaders many stayed away from the elections, ignoring government
efforts to improve on the paltry voter turnout that undercut the
first round of voting in April.
(AP, 6/21/09)
2009 Jun 21, In central India
at least 11 special police personnel were killed and 10 injured in a
landmine blast triggered overnight by suspected Maoist rebels in the
state of Chhattisgarh.
(AFP, 6/21/09)
2009 Jun 21, In Iran an eerie
calm settled over the streets of Tehran as state media said
authorities had arrested the daughter and four other relatives of
ex-President Hashemi Rafsanjani, one of Iran's most powerful men.
The reports brought the official death toll for a week of boisterous
confrontations to at least 19. Newsweek reporter Maziar Bahari, a
dual Iranian-Canadian citizen, was arrested. He was released on bail
on Oct 17.
(AP, 6/21/09)(AP, 10/17/09)
2009 Jun 21, It was reported
that handguns, rifles and bullets enter Jamaica from the US stoking
one of the world's highest murder rates.
(AP, 6/21/09)
2009 Jun 21, Nigeria's main
militant group said it had attacked a Shell offshore facility, the
third attack against the Anglo-Dutch company's facilities in Nigeria
in one day. The company denied the incident, saying the alleged
incident was part of the attack on two other Shell oil pipelines in
southern Rivers state earlier in the day.
(AFP, 6/21/09)
2009 Jun 21, Pakistani forces
used aircraft and artillery as they stepped up an assault aimed at
eliminating Pakistani Taliban commander Baituallah Mehsud.
(Reuters, 6/21/09)
2009 Jun 21, The Portuguese
foreign minister said his country will take in 2-3 Guantanamo Bay
detainees once they are released by the US detention camp.
(AP, 6/21/09)
2009 Jun 21, In San Juan,
Puerto Rico, a lone man who robbed $340,000 from a popular hotel and
casino by threatening a supervisor's family.
(AP, 6/22/09)
2009 Jun 21, Ukrainian border
guards seized 250 turtles being smuggled into the country on a train
from Uzbekistan, where they had been hidden and strapped down with
tape to prevent them from moving.
(AFP, 6/22/09)
2010 Jun 21, The US White
House slapped BP with a new 51-million-dollar bill, the third sent
to the British energy giant and its partners for government expenses
incurred in efforts to halt the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. BP
revealed it has so far spent two billion dollars on the Gulf of
Mexico oil spill, after an internal BP document suggested the gusher
might be spewing far faster than initially feared.
(AFP, 6/21/10)
2010 Jun 21, The US Supreme
Court lifted a nationwide ban on a genetically modified alfalfa. The
injunction, imposed a federal judge in San Francisco, prevented
farmers from planting Monsanto’s Roundup Ready alfalfa seed.
(SFC, 6/22/10, p.A6)
2010 Jun 21, In Daly City, Ca.,
Alexander Castanon (26), a barbeque restaurant worker, was shot in
the head on the 6200 block of Mission St. On May 4, 2011, 3
suspected MS-13 gang members were indicted by a federal grand jury
for the murder.
(SFC, 5/5/11, p.C3)
2010 Jun 21, In NYC Faisal
Shahzad (30), a Pakistani-born US citizen, pleaded guilty to all
charges related to his May 1 driving of a bomb-laden SUV meant to
cause a fireball in Times Square.
(SFC, 6/22/10, p.A6)
2010 Jun 21, In Texas David
Brown Jr. (27), the son of Dallas Police chief David Brown, was
killed by police after he killed Jeremy McMillan (23) and Officer
Craig Shaw (37) as police arrived on the scene of the McMillan’s
shooting.
(SFC, 6/22/10, p.A6)
2010 Jun 21, In Arizona the
Schultz fire around Flagstaff spread to 8,850 acres as some 300
firefighters battled the blaze.
(SFC, 6/21/10, p.A5)
2010 Jun 21, In southern
Afghanistan 3 Australian commandos and a US soldier were killed when
a helicopter crashed in Kandahar province, where NATO forces are
mounting an ambitious campaign to flush out Taliban militants. 5
other NATO service members, including 4 Americans, were killed in
separate attacks in the east and south. A UN survey warned that 8
percent of Afghans suffer from drug addiction, a rate twice the
global average and a "major" growing problem for the world's leading
narcotic producer. Afghan and US officials said up to 26 Taliban
suspects have been freed from jails in Afghanistan as part of
efforts to persuade Islamist insurgents to make peace.
(AFP, 6/21/10)(SFC, 6/22/10, p.A2)
2010 Jun 21, In Burundi the
president of the ruling party's youth league was assassinated by
unknown gunmen.
(AFP, 6/22/10)
2010 Jun 21, In central China
at least 47 miners were killed when an explosion ripped through a
coal mine in Pingdingshan city, Henan province.
(AP, 6/21/10)
2010 Jun 21, In southern China
floodwaters breached the Changkai levee on the Fu River in Jiangxi
province, forcing some 88,000 people to relocate from their homes in
the nearby city of Fuzhou.
(AP, 6/22/10)
2010 Jun 21, In the Congo
Republic at least 76 people were killed and 745 injured after a
train accident in the southern part of the country.
(Reuters, 6/23/10)
2010 Jun 21, Egypt's government
confirmed that oil has leaked from one of several rigs operating off
the coast of the Red Sea resort Hurghada and has polluted about 100
miles (160 km) of coastline including tourist beach resorts. The
government has kept quiet about the leak for days.
(AP, 6/21/10)
2010 Jun 21, Ethiopia's
election board confirmed PM Meles Zenawi's landslide victory in a
May 23 election disputed by opposition parties and criticized by the
EU and the United States.
(Reuters, 6/21/10)
2010 Jun 21, In India a group
of government ministers, appointed to suggest remedies for the 1984
disaster at Bhopal, made its recommendations. As many as 100,000
people continued to suffer chronic sickness from the poisonous gas
that leaked from a Union Carbide plant.
(Econ, 6/26/10, p.43)
2010 Jun 21, In Indonesia the
discovery of three dead Javan rhinos has intensified efforts to save
one of the world's most endangered mammals from extinction, with an
electric fence being built around a new sanctuary and breeding
ground.
(AP, 6/21/10)
2010 Jun 21, An Iranian
newspaper said police have issued warnings to 62,000 women who were
"badly veiled" in the Shiite holy province of Qom as part of a
clampdown on dress and behavior.
(AFP, 6/21/10)
2010 Jun 21, Iran said it has
banned two UN nuclear inspectors from entering the country because
they had leaked "false" information about Iran's disputed nuclear
program.
(AP, 6/21/10)
2010 Jun 21, In Iraq riot
police used water hoses to disperse an angry crowd protesting
lengthy power outages in Nasiriyah, where soaring temperatures have
pushed tensions to a boiling point. Many impoverished Iraqis in the
south have been left without air conditioning or fans despite high
humidity and summer temperatures that frequently rise above 110
degrees.
(AP, 6/21/10)
2010 Jun 21, The Japanese
distributor for the “The Cove,” a documentary about dolphin hunting
in Japan, said the film would be in 6 Japanese theaters on July 3.
(SFC, 6/22/10, p.A2)
2010 Jun 21, Kyrgyz government
forces swept into an ethnic Uzbek village, beating men and women
with rifle butts in an assault that left at least two dead and more
than 20 wounded.
(AP, 6/21/10)
2010 Jun 21, Lebanese
authorities granted permission for a blockade-busting ship with
activists and aid on board to sail first to the Mediterranean
island of Cyprus.
(AP, 6/21/10)
2010 Jun 21, In Mexico
assailants sprayed a town hall with gunfire close to midnight,
killing at least three police officers in Nuevo Leon state.
(AP, 6/22/10)
2010 Jun 21, Morocco’s official
MAP news agency said security forces have broken up a
Palestinian-led radical Islamist cell that was planning attacks in
the north African country.
(Reuters, 6/21/10)
2010 Jun 21, Russia started
cutting most natural gas supplies to ex-Soviet neighbor Belarus over
what it claims is a debt of nearly $200 million, threatening to
rekindle political disputes in the region over energy policy.
(AP, 6/21/10)
2010 Jun 21, South Korea said
abnormally high radiation levels were detected near the border
between the two Koreas on may 15, days after North Korea claimed to
have mastered a complex technology key to manufacturing a hydrogen
bomb.
(AP, 6/21/10)
2010 Jun 21, In Sudan more than
two dozen gunmen attacked Rwandan peacekeepers in the ravaged Darfur
region, killing three of them in an hour-long fire fight.
(AP, 6/21/10)
2010 Jun 21, Sweden's public
prosecutor opened a criminal investigation into allegations that
Swedes working for a consortium of oil companies during the Sudanese
civil war may have been complicit in human rights abuses.
(Reuters, 6/21/10)
2010 Jun 21, Turkish commando
units rappelled down from helicopters and mechanized infantry units
blocked escape routes of Kurdish rebels in a major operation along
the Iraqi border.
(AP, 6/21/10)
2010 Jun 21, A United
Arab Emirates reported that the UAR has closed down 40 international
and local firms as part of a crackdown on companies that violate UN
sanctions on Iran.
(AFP, 6/21/10)
2010 Jun 21, The UN Human
Rights Council unanimously elected Thailand's ambassador in Geneva
as its president for the coming year. Sihasak Phuangketkeow succeeds
Belgium's Alex Van Meeuwen after being nominated as the Asian
region's sole candidate.
(AP, 6/21/10)
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